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curl
Overview of noun curl
The noun curl has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll -- (a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals))
2. Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr. -- (American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933))
3. lock, curl, ringlet, whorl -- (a strand or cluster of hair)
Overview of verb curl
The verb curl has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (3) curl, curve, kink -- (form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling")
2. (2) curl up, curl, draw in -- (shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in")
3. (2) coil, loop, curl -- (wind around something in coils or loops)
4. (1) curl, wave -- (twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please")
5. curl -- (play the Scottish game of curling)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun curl
3 senses of curl
Sense 1
coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
=> round shape
=> shape, form
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
INSTANCE OF=> chemist
=> scientist, man of science
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
=> hair
=> body covering
=> covering, natural covering, cover
=> natural object
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun curl
2 of 3 senses of curl
Sense 1
coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
=> corolla
=> calyx
=> verticil
Sense 3
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
=> sausage curl
=> forelock
=> crimp
=> dreadlock
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun curl
3 senses of curl
Sense 1
coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
=> round shape
Sense 2
Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
INSTANCE OF=> chemist
Sense 3
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
=> hair
Antonyms of noun curl
Member Holonyms of noun curl
Substance Holonyms of noun curl
Part Holonyms of noun curl
1 of 3 senses of curl
Sense 3
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
PART OF: hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif
Member Meronyms of noun curl
Substance Meronyms of noun curl
Part Meronyms of noun curl
Meronyms of noun curl
Holonyms of noun curl
1 of 3 senses of curl
Sense 3
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
PART OF: hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif
Attributes of noun curl
Derived Forms of noun curl
2 of 3 senses of curl
Sense 1
coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
RELATED TO>(verb) curl#3
=> coil, loop, curl
RELATED TO>(verb) curl#2
=> curl up, curl, draw in
RELATED TO>(verb) curl#1
=> curl, curve, kink
Sense 3
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
RELATED TO>(adj) curly#1
=> curly
RELATED TO>(verb) curl#4
=> curl, wave
Domain of noun curl
Domain Terms of noun curl
Familiarity of noun curl
curl used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun curl
3 senses of curl
Sense 1
coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
> round shape
=> cone, conoid, cone shape
=> disk, disc, saucer
=> coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
=> whirl, swirl, vortex, convolution
=> spheroid, ellipsoid of revolution
=> sphere
=> sphere
=> cylinder
=> torus, toroid
=> rim
Sense 2
Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
> chemist
=> biochemist
=> nuclear chemist, radiochemist
HAS INSTANCE=> Arrhenius, Svante August Arrhenius
HAS INSTANCE=> Berzelius, Jons Jakob Berzelius
HAS INSTANCE=> Black, Joseph Black
HAS INSTANCE=> Boyle, Robert Boyle
HAS INSTANCE=> Buchner, Eduard Buchner
HAS INSTANCE=> Bunsen, Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
HAS INSTANCE=> Calvin, Melvin Calvin
HAS INSTANCE=> Carothers, Wallace Carothers, Wallace Hume Carothers
HAS INSTANCE=> Carver, George Washington Carver
HAS INSTANCE=> Cavendish, Henry Cavendish
HAS INSTANCE=> Crookes, William Crookes, Sir William Crookes
HAS INSTANCE=> Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska
HAS INSTANCE=> Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
HAS INSTANCE=> Dalton, John Dalton
HAS INSTANCE=> Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey Davy
HAS INSTANCE=> Dewar, Sir James Dewar
HAS INSTANCE=> Eigen, Manfred Eigen
HAS INSTANCE=> Erlenmeyer, Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer
HAS INSTANCE=> Faraday, Michael Faraday
HAS INSTANCE=> Fischer, Emil Hermann Fischer
HAS INSTANCE=> Fischer, Hans Fischer
HAS INSTANCE=> Flory, Paul John Flory
HAS INSTANCE=> Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
HAS INSTANCE=> Gibbs, Josiah Willard Gibbs
HAS INSTANCE=> Haber, Fritz Haber
HAS INSTANCE=> Hahn, Otto Hahn
HAS INSTANCE=> Hall, Charles Martin Hall
HAS INSTANCE=> Hassel, Odd Hassel
HAS INSTANCE=> Henry, William Henry
HAS INSTANCE=> Hevesy, George Charles Hevesy de Hevesy
HAS INSTANCE=> Heyrovsky, Joroslav Heyrovsky
HAS INSTANCE=> Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
HAS INSTANCE=> Hoffmann, Roald Hoffmann
HAS INSTANCE=> Hoffmann, August Wilhelm von Hoffmann
HAS INSTANCE=> Kekule, Friedrich August Kekule, Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz
HAS INSTANCE=> Klaproth, Martin Heinrich Klaproth
HAS INSTANCE=> Kroto, Harold Kroto, Harold W. Kroto, Sir Harold Walter Kroto
HAS INSTANCE=> Kuhn, Richard Kuhn
HAS INSTANCE=> Langmuir, Irving Langmuir
HAS INSTANCE=> Lavoisier, Antoine Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
HAS INSTANCE=> le Chatelier, Henry le Chatelier
HAS INSTANCE=> Libby, Willard Frank Libby
HAS INSTANCE=> Lipscomb, William Nunn Lipscom Jr.
HAS INSTANCE=> Mendeleyev, Mendeleev, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Dmitri Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
HAS INSTANCE=> Morley, E. W. Morley, Edward Morley, Edward Williams Morley
HAS INSTANCE=> Mosander, Carl Gustaf Mossander
HAS INSTANCE=> Muller, Paul Hermann Muller
HAS INSTANCE=> Natta, Giulio Natta
HAS INSTANCE=> Nernst, Walther Hermann Nernst
HAS INSTANCE=> Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Bernhard Nobel
HAS INSTANCE=> Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
HAS INSTANCE=> Onsager, Lars Onsager
HAS INSTANCE=> Ostwald, Wilhelm Ostwald
HAS INSTANCE=> Pasteur, Louis Pasteur
HAS INSTANCE=> Pauling, Linus Pauling, Linus Carl Pauling
HAS INSTANCE=> Priestley, Joseph Priestley
HAS INSTANCE=> Reichstein, Tadeus Reichstein
HAS INSTANCE=> Roberts, Richard J. Roberts, Richard John Roberts
HAS INSTANCE=> Robinson, Robert Robinson, Sir Robert Robinson
HAS INSTANCE=> Rutherford, Daniel Rutherford
HAS INSTANCE=> Scheele, Karl Scheele, Karl Wilhelm Scheele
HAS INSTANCE=> Schonbein, Christian Schonbein, Christian Friedrich Schonbein
HAS INSTANCE=> Seaborg, Glenn T. Seaborg, Glenn Theodore Seaborg
HAS INSTANCE=> Smalley, Richard Smalley, Richard E. Smalley, Richard Errett Smalley
HAS INSTANCE=> Soddy, Frederick Soddy
HAS INSTANCE=> Solvay, Ernest Solvay
HAS INSTANCE=> Sorensen, Soren Peter Lauritz Sorensen
HAS INSTANCE=> Todd, Sir Alexander Robertus Todd
HAS INSTANCE=> Urey, Harold Urey, Harold Clayton Urey
HAS INSTANCE=> Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
HAS INSTANCE=> Windaus, Adolf Windaus
HAS INSTANCE=> Wollaston, William Hyde Wollaston
HAS INSTANCE=> Woodward, Bob Woodward, Robert Woodward, Robert Burns Woodward
HAS INSTANCE=> Ziegler, Karl Waldemar Ziegler
HAS INSTANCE=> Zsigmondy, Richard Adolph Zsigmondy
Sense 3
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
> hair
=> coat, pelage
=> guard hair
=> mane
=> forelock, foretop
=> beard
=> body hair
=> down, pile
=> mane, head of hair
=> cowlick
=> hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif
=> lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
=> beard, face fungus, whiskers
=> mustache, moustache
=> pubic hair, bush, crotch hair
=> eyebrow, brow, supercilium
=> eyelash, lash, cilium
Meronyms of noun curl
2 of 3 senses of curl
Sense 3
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
=> hair
HAS SUBSTANCE: keratin, ceratin
HAS PART: hairline
HAS PART: widow's peak
HAS PART: part, parting
=> body covering
HAS PART: hypodermis
=> covering, natural covering, cover
=> natural object
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun curl
1 of 3 senses of curl
Sense 3
lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
PART OF: hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif
Grep of noun curl
curl
curled pondweed
curler
curlew
curlew sandpiper
curleyleaf pondweed
curlicue
curliness
curling
curling iron
curly-coated retriever
curly-heads
curly clematis
curly endive
curly grass
curly grass fern
curlycup gumweed
kiss curl
leg curl
pin curl
robert curl
robert f. curl
robert floyd curl jr.
sausage curl
spit curl
Antonyms of verb curl
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb curl
5 senses of curl
Sense 1
curl, curve, kink
=> change surface
=> change
Sense 2
curl up, curl, draw in
=> bend, flex
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> change
Sense 3
coil, loop, curl
=> wind, wrap, roll, twine
=> move, displace
Sense 4
curl, wave
=> twist
=> turn
=> move
Sense 5
curl
=> play
=> compete, vie, contend
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb curl
1 of 5 senses of curl
Sense 4
curl, wave
=> crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb curl
5 senses of curl
Sense 1
curl, curve, kink
=> change surface
Sense 2
curl up, curl, draw in
=> bend, flex
Sense 3
coil, loop, curl
=> wind, wrap, roll, twine
Sense 4
curl, wave
=> twist
Sense 5
curl
=> play
'Cause To' of verb curl
Derived Forms of verb curl
5 senses of curl
Sense 1
curl, curve, kink
RELATED TO>(noun) curl#1
=> coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
Sense 2
curl up, curl, draw in
RELATED TO>(noun) curl#1
=> coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
Sense 3
coil, loop, curl
RELATED TO>(noun) curl#1
=> coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
Sense 4
curl, wave
RELATED TO>(noun) curl#3
=> lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
RELATED TO>(noun) curler#1
=> curler, hair curler, roller, crimper
Sense 5
curl
RELATED TO>(noun) curling#1
=> curling
Domain of verb curl
1 of 5 senses of curl
Sense 5
curl
TOPIC>(noun) sport#1, athletics#1
Domain Terms of verb curl
Familiarity of verb curl
curl used as a verb is common (polysemy count =5)
Sample Sentences of verb curl
5 senses of curl
Sense 1
curl, curve, kink
*> Something ----s
Sense 2
curl up, curl, draw in
*> Something is ----ing PP
*> Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
coil, loop, curl
EX: They curl the wire around the stick
EX: The wires curl around the stick
Sense 4
curl, wave
EX: They curl their hair
Sense 5
curl
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb curl
5 senses of curl
Sense 1
curl, curve, kink
> change surface
=> level, level off
=> crust
=> heave, buckle, warp
=> curl, curve, kink
=> unfurl, unroll
=> roll up, wrap up
=> marbleize, marbleise
=> smooth, smoothen
=> roughen
=> fold, fold up, turn up
=> flush, level, even out, even
=> tease
=> impress, imprint
=> spot, fleck, blob, blot
Sense 2
curl up, curl, draw in
> bend, flex
=> crook, curve
=> arch, curve, arc
=> incurvate
=> retroflex, replicate
=> lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle
=> crouch, stoop, bend, bow
=> double over, double, double up
=> fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
=> curl up, curl, draw in
Sense 3
coil, loop, curl
> wind, wrap, roll, twine
=> spool
=> reel
=> ball
=> clue, clew
=> coil, loop, curl
Sense 4
curl, wave
> twist
=> crick
=> quirk
=> curl, wave
Sense 5
curl
> play
=> line up
=> curl
=> snooker
=> revoke
=> develop
=> develop
=> die
=> misplay
=> start
=> fumble
=> volley
=> unblock
=> replay
=> cricket
=> backstop
=> fullback
=> quarterback
=> cradle
=> exit
=> play out
=> field
=> catch
=> face off, bully off
=> tee off
=> ace
=> complete, nail
=> gamble
=> walk
=> bowl
=> golf
=> bandy
=> foul
=> put out
=> croquet
=> putt
=> teeter-totter, teetertotter, seesaw
=> bid, call
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb curl
Sense 1
curl, curve, kink
=> change surface
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Sense 2
curl up, curl, draw in
=> bend, flex
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Sense 3
coil, loop, curl
=> wind, wrap, roll, twine
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Sense 4
curl, wave
=> twist
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Sense 5
curl
=> play
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Grep of verb curl
curl
curl up
uncurl
Grep of adj curl
curled
curled up
curling
curly
curly-coated
curly-grained
curly-haired
curly-leafed
curly-leaved
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